Qualitative coding software

[MinervasOwl]

Hey,

What software if any are are you all using to code qualitative data?

[silver_lining]

You mean aside from Nvivo? It would help to have a little bit more info on what you are doing. 

[rising_star]

I've used both NVivo and Atlas.ti. The latter is much less expensive.

[MinervasOwl]

Thanks. Getting ready to code some interview data and trying to figure out which option to choose. Which one did you prefer?

What do people think about dedoose?

[Adelaide9216]

Do you believe universities provide N-Vivo for free? 

[sofi]

Two friends used QDAMiner and MAXQDA for their thesis work. They were both happy with them.

[MinaminoTeku]

Multiple colored highlighters and pens was my coding for my thesis. Good to know that software actually exists to do it for me xD

[Levon3]

I use NVivo because it was required for a course. It does not work well on a mac (many features/tools are unavailable on the mac version, though if you want to partition your macbook to run windows too, you can work around it this way). 

And @Adelaide9216, my university provides it free on the lab computers, but not for downloading to personally-owned PCs. 

[rising_star]

On 4/9/2017 at 9:31 PM, Adelaide9216 said:

Do you believe universities provide N-Vivo for free? 

That's going to depend on the school. You should ask. It's expensive for an institution to buy a bunch of NVivo licenses, especially if people are moving toward Dedoose or other options.

[Adelaide9216]

Yeah, two people told me about Dedoose. Never heard of this one before. What do you think of it?